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29-03-2007, 11:34 PM
USA Today
by Jim Michaels
March 28, 2007
Washington- The U.S. military is quietly expanding capabilities to attack terrorist computer networks, including websites that glorify insurgent attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq, military officials and experts say. (Unamed sources)
The move comes as al-Quaeda and other groups fighting in Iraq and elsewhere have expanded their activities on the Internet and increased the sophistication and volume of their videos and messages. Much of the material is designed to raise money and recruit fighters for Iraq.
"You should not let them operated uncontested" on the Internet and elsewhere in cyberspace, said Marine Brig. Gen. John Davis who heads a military command located at the National Securtiy Agency (Why is this guy doing CIA work inside America?). The command was established to develop ways to attack computer networks.
Davis and other officials declined to say whether the military has actually attacked any networks which would require presidential authorization. The techniques are highly classified. (COINTEL-PRO, Hacking, Phishing, Spamming, Pinging, Sniffing, secret Escheleon intercepts in the Internet data pipelines). Pentagon contract documents show the military asks companies to develop a "full spectrum...of computer network attack techniques." Run by the Air ForceResearch Laboratory, this program aims to spend $40 million over four years, documents show.
The growth in offensive capabilities signals a shift in military thinking from just monitoring terrorist websites for intilligence to attacking those sites. (I bet that means anyone they disagree with politically and militarilly).
"The offensive is increasingly on leaders' minds," said John Arquilla, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School who also works for the Defense Department on cyberwar issues.
Some officials say cyberattacks can result in losing critical intelligence.
"You always have the built-in tension between the operator who wants to destroy the target and the intelligence officer who wants to use the target to gain more information," said Lani Kass, director of the Air Force's cyberspace task force.
"Our opponents do a heck of a lot more than just watch us in cyberspace," Davis said. (We are enemy combatants?)"They are acting in cyberspace. We need to develop options so that we can...dominate cyberspace" (Sickning).
Cyberattacks can take different forms, including eliminating terrorist websites and creating doubts among insurgents about their networks' security, said Arquilla, who favors an offensive approach he calls a "virtual scorched-earth policy" (I so want the EFF to sue this guy).
Armed groups in Iraq videotabe nearly all of their attacks on U.S. forces to help maginfy their impact.
"Everything they do in Iraq and Afghanistan is geared toward propaganda," said Rep. Jim Saxton, R-N.J., who's on the House Armed Services Committee.
The videos and messages are "getting more and more professional," said Andretta Summerville of iDefense, a private contractor that monitors terrorist activities on the internet (not to mention our bill of rights).
Some sites find recruits and push "them toward a pipeline that ends in sucide attacks," said Lt. Col. Mathew McLaughin, a spokesman for Central Command, which runs the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Attacking websites may have limited value, said Ben Venske of IntelCenter, a contractor that monitors terrorist websites and Internet forums (like Loose Change I bet). "The problem is the nature of the internet itself," he said."It can always come back up in 10 seconds" (He must be working at GOOGLE or SPOOOKLE).
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It's something that (I think) they put into Google when they started. Google knows about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa.com
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/track-rank-google-api
Read the history. "The beast of many heads," the hydra.
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Conspiracy theorists: Feds, web hosts conspire against us
And the Illuminati are in on it too
Page: 1 2 Next >
By Mark Baard → More by this author
Published Thursday 29th March 2007 11:07 GMT
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When Alan Watt's website Cutting Through the Matrix went offline in February, he knew it was because someone "at the top" decided he was getting too close to the truth.
Watt is one of several "esoteric researchers" (call them conspiracy theorists) who believe Big Brother is telling Yahoo!, Google, and other companies which websites get to stay up, and which come down.
Click here to find out more!
"I am certain of it," said Watt, a researcher studying the role secret societies play in global events.
Yahoo!'s web hosting division, which provides services to Cutting Through, pulled the site without explanation after Watt posted an audio "blurb" about the CIA's links to drug traffickers and the 1980s crack epidemic in Los Angeles, he said.
Yahoo! lifted the suspension, again without explanation, about three days later, according to Watt.
It may not be the worst thing Big Brother has done to Watt: Paramilitary forces once plunked a phosphorous grenade down his chimney, he claims.
But there are many other Anti-Masons and 9/11 truthers claiming that sinister forces and the internet's big boys are de-indexing and suspending sites that threaten to expose the global ruling elite.
It sounds loopy, but the allegations - from the webmasters of sites such as Prison Planet and the Illuminati Conspiracy Archive - have persisted since late last year.
The conspiracists suspect Western intelligence and law enforcement agencies are using subtler means to curtail anti-government content, because - unlike Vietnam and China, for example - they cannot overtly censor bloggers, vloggers and podcasters.
A Prison Planet article last October reported a claim that Google, which hosts videos and blogs through its subsidiaries, is "in bed" with the CIA, and the two have "targeted websites for blackout".
The site also accused Google Video of trimming the viewership statistics for Terror Storm, a film that argues that many attacks against America are government-sponsored "false flag operations" designed to get people to relinquish their freedoms.
Of course, the site suspensions, YouTube ranking changes, and search engine de-indexings may simply be the result of technical errors, as claimed by the service providers.
"Lazy workers in an increasingly Sovietized Western economy" are surely to blame for some of these problems, says Henrik Palmgren, who runs the website Red Ice Creations.
Red Ice features podcast interviews with esoteric researchers, including Watt, and news updates from bloggers and the mainstream media.
Red Ice earlier this month was suspended by its hosting service One.com in "a knee jerk reaction" to a spam message that linked to Red Ice, but did not originate there, said Palmgren.
At least that's what the service provider told Palmgren.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/29/anti-conspiracy_theorist_conspiracy/
by Jim Michaels
March 28, 2007
Washington- The U.S. military is quietly expanding capabilities to attack terrorist computer networks, including websites that glorify insurgent attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq, military officials and experts say. (Unamed sources)
The move comes as al-Quaeda and other groups fighting in Iraq and elsewhere have expanded their activities on the Internet and increased the sophistication and volume of their videos and messages. Much of the material is designed to raise money and recruit fighters for Iraq.
"You should not let them operated uncontested" on the Internet and elsewhere in cyberspace, said Marine Brig. Gen. John Davis who heads a military command located at the National Securtiy Agency (Why is this guy doing CIA work inside America?). The command was established to develop ways to attack computer networks.
Davis and other officials declined to say whether the military has actually attacked any networks which would require presidential authorization. The techniques are highly classified. (COINTEL-PRO, Hacking, Phishing, Spamming, Pinging, Sniffing, secret Escheleon intercepts in the Internet data pipelines). Pentagon contract documents show the military asks companies to develop a "full spectrum...of computer network attack techniques." Run by the Air ForceResearch Laboratory, this program aims to spend $40 million over four years, documents show.
The growth in offensive capabilities signals a shift in military thinking from just monitoring terrorist websites for intilligence to attacking those sites. (I bet that means anyone they disagree with politically and militarilly).
"The offensive is increasingly on leaders' minds," said John Arquilla, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School who also works for the Defense Department on cyberwar issues.
Some officials say cyberattacks can result in losing critical intelligence.
"You always have the built-in tension between the operator who wants to destroy the target and the intelligence officer who wants to use the target to gain more information," said Lani Kass, director of the Air Force's cyberspace task force.
"Our opponents do a heck of a lot more than just watch us in cyberspace," Davis said. (We are enemy combatants?)"They are acting in cyberspace. We need to develop options so that we can...dominate cyberspace" (Sickning).
Cyberattacks can take different forms, including eliminating terrorist websites and creating doubts among insurgents about their networks' security, said Arquilla, who favors an offensive approach he calls a "virtual scorched-earth policy" (I so want the EFF to sue this guy).
Armed groups in Iraq videotabe nearly all of their attacks on U.S. forces to help maginfy their impact.
"Everything they do in Iraq and Afghanistan is geared toward propaganda," said Rep. Jim Saxton, R-N.J., who's on the House Armed Services Committee.
The videos and messages are "getting more and more professional," said Andretta Summerville of iDefense, a private contractor that monitors terrorist activities on the internet (not to mention our bill of rights).
Some sites find recruits and push "them toward a pipeline that ends in sucide attacks," said Lt. Col. Mathew McLaughin, a spokesman for Central Command, which runs the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Attacking websites may have limited value, said Ben Venske of IntelCenter, a contractor that monitors terrorist websites and Internet forums (like Loose Change I bet). "The problem is the nature of the internet itself," he said."It can always come back up in 10 seconds" (He must be working at GOOGLE or SPOOOKLE).
-----------------------------------------------------------
It's something that (I think) they put into Google when they started. Google knows about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa.com
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/track-rank-google-api
Read the history. "The beast of many heads," the hydra.
-----------------------------------------------------------
Conspiracy theorists: Feds, web hosts conspire against us
And the Illuminati are in on it too
Page: 1 2 Next >
By Mark Baard → More by this author
Published Thursday 29th March 2007 11:07 GMT
Sign up to our newsletter
When Alan Watt's website Cutting Through the Matrix went offline in February, he knew it was because someone "at the top" decided he was getting too close to the truth.
Watt is one of several "esoteric researchers" (call them conspiracy theorists) who believe Big Brother is telling Yahoo!, Google, and other companies which websites get to stay up, and which come down.
Click here to find out more!
"I am certain of it," said Watt, a researcher studying the role secret societies play in global events.
Yahoo!'s web hosting division, which provides services to Cutting Through, pulled the site without explanation after Watt posted an audio "blurb" about the CIA's links to drug traffickers and the 1980s crack epidemic in Los Angeles, he said.
Yahoo! lifted the suspension, again without explanation, about three days later, according to Watt.
It may not be the worst thing Big Brother has done to Watt: Paramilitary forces once plunked a phosphorous grenade down his chimney, he claims.
But there are many other Anti-Masons and 9/11 truthers claiming that sinister forces and the internet's big boys are de-indexing and suspending sites that threaten to expose the global ruling elite.
It sounds loopy, but the allegations - from the webmasters of sites such as Prison Planet and the Illuminati Conspiracy Archive - have persisted since late last year.
The conspiracists suspect Western intelligence and law enforcement agencies are using subtler means to curtail anti-government content, because - unlike Vietnam and China, for example - they cannot overtly censor bloggers, vloggers and podcasters.
A Prison Planet article last October reported a claim that Google, which hosts videos and blogs through its subsidiaries, is "in bed" with the CIA, and the two have "targeted websites for blackout".
The site also accused Google Video of trimming the viewership statistics for Terror Storm, a film that argues that many attacks against America are government-sponsored "false flag operations" designed to get people to relinquish their freedoms.
Of course, the site suspensions, YouTube ranking changes, and search engine de-indexings may simply be the result of technical errors, as claimed by the service providers.
"Lazy workers in an increasingly Sovietized Western economy" are surely to blame for some of these problems, says Henrik Palmgren, who runs the website Red Ice Creations.
Red Ice features podcast interviews with esoteric researchers, including Watt, and news updates from bloggers and the mainstream media.
Red Ice earlier this month was suspended by its hosting service One.com in "a knee jerk reaction" to a spam message that linked to Red Ice, but did not originate there, said Palmgren.
At least that's what the service provider told Palmgren.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/29/anti-conspiracy_theorist_conspiracy/